There has been a fair amount of sardine related activity between Pennington and Amanzimtoti over the past few days, but no sign of big solid shoals of fish, making life difficult for sein netters.

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On Tuesday the netters managed to net about seven times, mainly in the area between Amanzimtoti and Chain Rocks, and a couple of small nettings took place at Happy Wanderers and Pennington too.Strong surf conditions saw many nets returning empty.

Greg Thompson, KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board’s acting head of operations said Wednesday was pretty quiet with just the one confirmed netting or around 70 crates at Umgababa. There were a few missed attempts in the Warner Beach area. Thursday was very quiet with no confirmed nettings taking place. Hopefully the activity improves after the fresh south westerly which is predicted to come through today (Friday).

News from the Eastern Cape is that there is still loads of sardine related activity between Port St Johns and Waterfall Bluff but there are no actual solid shoals of sardines to be seen. It seems like there is a big mixture of the different baitfish species with sardines in this area.

At the moment bathing remains banned between Isipingo and Umtentweni, due to the sardine related activity which keeps showing up in these areas. If you are unsure about the Bbathing status please make sure you chat to the lifeguards before entering the water.

The KZNSB will continue to monitor activity in the days ahead.

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